Page 106 of Bitten By Desire
I put my hands out to block the view of his junk. Why was he naked? Did he secretly want to fuck me before he killed me?
“Otto, come on man,” Bennett said. “You knew what we were doing.” He coughed again. “Put your pants on.”
“Fine.” He sighed. “A man can dream.” He retreated into Titan’s office and came back out a few seconds later fully clothed. “So you think we’re the vampires instead of your little friend Theo? Or Callum? Or whatever he’s going by?” He plopped down on the counter. “That’s actually kind of funny.”
I opened my mouth and closed it again.
“We’re not vampires,” Bennett said. He’d finally stopped coughing. But he didn’t move to get closer to me. “That’s not our secret, Emma.”
“Clearly,” Ace said. “Or that garlic powder would have really fucked us up.” He smiled at me.
But I didn’t find any of this humorous. “Then why are you trying to cut my hand?”
“The secret has to stay between us,” Otto said. “If it gets out…well…we’d probably be run out of town with torches and pitchforks or something.”
“Otto, enough,” Titan said.
I swallowed hard. Why else would they be run out of Crooked Point with torches and pitchforks? That really pointed to them being vampires…
Titan walked up to me.
I was completely frozen in place. I didn’t even throw any garlic powder at him.
He grabbed the bottle of garlic powder and the spatula out of my hands.
And now I die.
“Give me the knife,” Titan said.
Bennett walked over to Titan and handed him the knife.
“Bennett, please don’t do this.” I couldn’t help the tears welling in my eyes. “Please don’t…”
“We’re not going to hurt you, Emma,” Bennett said. “Well, it will sting for a second.” He grabbed my hand. Normally the warmth of his touch would have been soothing. But my whole body was shaking.
“Bennett…”
“It’s just a blood oath. So that you can’t share our secret.”
Wait, what?
“We all did it too.” He showed me his palm. There was a long, thin scar along his lifeline. “That’s why I can’t tell you the secret. I physically can’t. That’s why you asking me with the watch hurt me. It was tearing me apart. I can’t tell you the truth, even with magic. We just have to show you.”
“So you’re going to cut my palm and then you can show me?”
Bennett nodded. “But you won’t be able to talk about it with anyone but us. And anyone else that knows. Callum for example. He knows. So I guess you’ll be able to talk about it with him.”
Callum knows?“Did he do this blood oath thing too?”
“No. He found us out.”
I feel like I should have asked for a few days to think this over. But I really just wanted to know. “You swear you’re not going to cut me and then drink my blood?”
“We’re not vampires. Callum is.”
I didn’t know whether to believe him or not. But…all my garlic weapons hadn’t done a single thing. “Is your secret similar to being a vampire? Like…something bad?”
“You have to do the blood oath first, Emma. Then I’ll show you.”
